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单词 to round on
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to round on
to round on
1. transitive. slang. To give accusatory or incriminatory information about (an accomplice or associate).
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society > communication > information > informing on or against > inform on or against [verb (intransitive)]
inform1588
peach1598
whistle1599
sing1612
whiddlec1661
squeak1690
wheedle1710
whittle1735
to blow the gab1785
snitch1801
rat1810
nose1811
sing1816
gnarl1819
split1819
stag1839
clype1843
squeal1846
blow1848
to round on1857
nark1859
pimp1865
squawk1872
ruck1884
to come or turn copper1891
copper1897
sneak1897
cough1901
stool1911
tattle-tale1918
snout1923
talk1924
fink1925
scream1925
sarbut1928
grass1929
to turn over1967
dime1970
1857 Times 5 Dec. 12/5 I'll have some more money, or else I'll ‘round’ on you.
1875 W. Besant & J. Rice With Harp & Crown III. i. 15 You know I would not be such a bad lot as to round on your cousin, whatever he's done.
1915 St. J. Ervine Jane Clegg iii. 99 I 'eld my tongue all this time when I might 'ave said things, on'y I didden want to round on a pal.
2007 S. Geng Thick as Thieves Prol. 5 Sis just rounded on you like a jailhouse con.
2. transitive. To become suddenly hostile towards (a person); to attack; to abuse, berate. Cf. to turn round 3a at turn v. Phrasal verbs 1.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > attack with hostile words or measures > suddenly
to turn round1808
to round on1880
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > abuse [verb (transitive)] > suddenly
to turn round1808
to round on1880
1880 Punch 28 Aug. 85/1 Lord R. Churchill ‘rounded on him’ (school-boy slang seems so appropriate to the proceedings of Lord Randolph) as ‘an old Tory’.
1918 W. B. Maxwell Mirror & Lamp xxv. 203 There were always dogs ready to round on you, if you didn't keep them in order.
1966 Listener 24 Nov. 764/2 It may be possible to find a parallel in the work of other writers whose first impulse, as young men, was to round on society.
2001 Guardian 13 Apr. ii. 2/2 Neil and I are rounded on by a bouncer in a neon vest.
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